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Apartment in Athens

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Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion - an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.

Subjects: History
Interpersonal relations
Psychological
War & Military
Triangles
Greece
Set in: Greece
Athens
Time: Occupation, 1941-1944

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